Arrived in MIlan at last

Well, Drew is a citizen of Italy now. He arrived on the 22nd. He left @ 1107 on 21 April, went to Chicago, then to Germany on Lufthansa. Arrived in Germany about 7 AM the 22nd. He then boarded another flight, and 1.5 hours later he was in Milan.

The Assistants to the Mission President met his group at the airport and took them back to the mission office. they then went on a small excursion to see some of the sights in Milan and to pass out Books of Mormon on their first day. Later that night, after dinner, he had an interview with the mission president and found out who his companion would be and what city he would serve in first. They are 8 hours ahead of us. Kris got a phone call from the Mission President's wife informing us he had arrived safely and told us what was going on.

He will serve with Elder Wigant in the city of Cuneo. Do a maps.google.com search and you will see that it is about 45 miles south of Torino where the Olympics were held. He is about 16 miles from the French boarder. He will certainly use his 4 years of French there. Not too far away is Monaco, Nice and the French riviera. Yes, I'm already planning our trip over there.

He will have e-mail there, but will only have 1 hour on the computer, so time will be short. His preparation days are on Wednesdays. That is the day he cleans, does laundry and plays tourist for a few hours, then it's back to being a missionary.

Hopefully he will start sending pictures back so I can get them up on the site, until then you can do a search and find beautiful buildings and places where he will be.